So many questions at once; she snatches at the last one as it passes, as the most immediate one to answer. "They're here, they came with me -- we're all at the Oak and Iron, if you want to come see them? And I, I can tell you everything ..."

The way his shoulders sink -- oh, she doesn't like that at all.

"And perhaps you can tell me some things as well? What it's like here, how you've fared ...?"